HOCKE Y Howie Morenz of Les Canadiens X L things considered, the last game between the Rangers and the Canadiens was one of the most eventful of the season In the first place, it ended with a score of 3-2. This, after a month or so in which scoreless ties have been the rule at the Garden, was enough to make it in teresting. Three to two is the most effective possible conclusion for a game; enough goals for action, and not so many as to make the play sloppy. In the second place, by winning, the Rang- ers climbed from the bottom of the league standing in to second place with one jump. Even this, though the papers seemed to consider it the most significant item about the performance, struck us as less moving than the accident to Howie Morenz, who twisted his left ankle in a collision with Bun Cook and is likely to be out of the game for several weeks. The truth is that with the playoff system now in vogue-a system that we have never under- stood and, possibly for this reason, never like d-a team's position in the league standing makes no difference, and it has been clear, this year as last, that the Rangers are not playing their heads off for a first place which means nothing when the Stanley Cup series starts. On the other hand, Morenz has been, in our opinion, the most spectacular player in the league for the better part of ten years. His injury may not prevent him from play- ing through the rest of the season, but it is, quite possibly, the beginning of the end of his days as the pivot man of the fastest forward line in hockey. The same ankle has bothered the Ca- nadiens' centre twice be fore; once, in 1 927, when he missed thirteen games after twisting it in a game against the Maroons, and once again two years ago. The second injury, like last week's, was the result of a collision with Bun Cook. Morenz tried everything, from chiropractors to giving up golf, but it was not until two weeks ago that it had healed sufficiently to enable him to walk comfortably without a stiff bandage. He had been playing up to his old standard for a fortnight before last week's mishap, which came in the third period of the game. Cook reached for the puck coming in from be- hind Morenz. The Canadiens' centre swerved the wrong way and fell back- ward, across Cook's stick. M ORENZ' claim to being the most spectacular player in hockey is based upon the simple fact that he skates faster than anyone else in the game. The truth of this statement _ was more obvious a few years ago than it is now, because he has conceived the notion that at thirty-one he owes it to himself to go a little easier than he used to. What enables him still to outdistance any other forward in the game w hen the Canadiens really need a goal, or when for personal reasons he wants to take the puck down the ice himself, remains, like all purely individual tal- ents, somewhat mysterious. Morenz skates without swinging his weight heavily from one skate to the other, balanced so that the direction he will take when he gets beyond the blue line is nevér telegraphed to the opposition. A year or so ago, someone started an unfounded rumor that he used lighter skates than his confreres to increase his speed. As is the case with all his teammates, his are made by the Canadian Cycle & Motor Com- pany. Morenz keeps the blades as sharp as possible, and often has them ground between periods. His shoes have stronger steel ankle braces than most but otherwise are not unusual. He and the two other members of the Canadiens' .first-string forward line- ] oliat, who wears a black cap to con-' ceal his bald head, and Gagnon, who has the amazing knack of receiving a pass and flicking it toward the net before it appears to have touched his stick-use a less intricate type of of- fensive than, for example, the Cook brothers and Boucher. Like most good forward lines, they rehearse their plays like a football team and call signals, numbers which are changed from week to week, going up the ice. Morenz thinks Chuck Gardiner of the Chicago Black Hawks is probably the hardest goal-tender in the league to sneak a shot past but believes that all goalies are more effective than they were a year or two ago. It used to be possible to draw them out with a fein t and then whip the puck past as they tried to scramble back. Now they are drilled to stay in the nets. -R. L. 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